I have posted an article over at SevereStudios on the Potterville Tornado of 1 year ago today. Right now as I write this at around 4:26 PM it is almost 1 year to the second that the first report of debris came in across the Skywarn Net (145.390 repeater) that I was running.

You can read my story here:
http://www.severestudios.com/Potterville-Michigan-Recovers-from-EF-3-Tor...

This is the video from August 4, 2008 when I did a phoner on The Weather Channel with Jim Cantore!

This is a picture of the monster shelf cloud associated with a Derecho event in Northern Indiana on Monday Night. I knew the potential for Severe Storms was great, however, I also came to the realization that the best chance of severe weather was in the 8600 CAPE area in Central and North Central Illinois. Having worked all day Monday and having to work Tuesday, I decided that was pretty much a chase that wouldn't happen.

A small chase on my day off leads me to the Van Wert, OH area and nothing really of subsidence. I left Lansing and met up with Andrew Glenn in Marshall. We headed south on 69 where we saw an awesome anvil structure and ran into a storm just north of Fort Wayne.

Everything was very elevated and we ended up stopping at a Meijers on the east side of Fort Wayne where we saw shopping carts blow in the wind and got pea sized hail. We ended up getting behind an Amish buggy coming out of the parking lot, which was about the most exciting thing to happen all evening.

SevereStudios Inc., the company I own 1/3 of needed to get a lot of work done. Since the other 2 owners live in South Dakota, it was decided I would fly out and get everything done we needed to get done this past weekend.

I flew out Saturday, and met Tim Purington in Minneapolis for breakfast. Instead of working, we got some storm chasing in including a Tornado Warning south of Sioux Falls, SD. Never ended up seeing anything and eventually called it a night and headed to an Italian Restaurant in Sioux Falls. We then went and enjoyed ourselves in a 'guys night out' Saturday night.

Not a lot to say about Wednesday July 16. CAPE values in excess of 3500-4000 J/KG and little Cap led to some storms firing in Lower Michigan, including a bow echo over in Wisconsin that came across the lake. I left work early and shot up US-127 to the Shepherd, MI area. Indications of 3.5 inch hail were most likely over exaggerated, however, I expected to at least find some hail. By the time I made it up there, most of what was severe previously had gone. I chased through some torrential downpours and a lot of cloud to ground lightning.

Tonight marks the last night of the 2008 Common Ground. Staind rocked on Monday, Tuesday was a performance by David Lee Roth. Luckily I was running the radio most of Tuesday. Wednesday I had to work until Late, so I took the night off. Thursday was Kellie Pickler, who I almost fell asleep at. Friday was Seether. I wasn't overly impressed with Seether. They played Alice in Chains "Nutshell" and screwed up every lyric to the song.

Saturday I took a day off from work and Common Ground and got things together. I bought a new camera - A Sony DCR-HC52. We'll see how well it works.

I had been looking forward to this night for a few months now. One of my most favorite bands ever, Staind, was set to play opening night this year. I have never seen Staind live, and I have wanted to since I got "Break the Cycle" in 2001. (It really doesn't seem like it was 7 years ago now)

They have a new song out "Believe" which they played. The show was awesome. Here is the setlist:

Price to Play
Just Go
Right Here
Schizophrenic Conversations
Fade
Trippy
Falling
Outside
Turn the Page
Intro
For You
Tolerate
It's Been Awhile
Believe
So Far Away
Mudshuvel

So the new site is live and the old site is gone. I've still got a few things to add, however, and a few bugs to work out. If you're actually reading this, thanks for the support. I don't know if anyone is really coming to this site anymore. :)

Feel free to look around.